I would either ask what Peter asked, or ask "What are the most important things that the Theravada tradition got wrong?" so I could continue to use Theravada as a framework for my practice, but with those caveats and corrections provided by the Buddha.

Metta,Retro.

If you have asked me of the origination of unease, then I shall explain it to you in accordance with my understanding: Whatever various forms of unease there are in the world, They originate founded in encumbering accumulation. (Pārāyanavagga)

Exalted in mind, just open and clearly aware, the recluse trained in the ways of the sages:One who is such, calmed and ever mindful, He has no sorrows! -- Udana IV, 7

I would either ask what Peter asked, or ask "What are the most important things that the Theravada tradition got wrong?" so I could continue to use Theravada as a framework for my practice, but with those caveats and corrections provided by the Buddha.

Metta,Retro.

And if he says, "Nothing," boy did you waste YOUR question!

I'd go with Peter's choice, which is basically my same choice, because it's guaranteed to get a useful reply. What the Theravada tradition got wrong might not necessarily be relevant to your personal case, too. What if what they got wrong is just something trivial, like a few minor errors in the Tipitaka?

Individual wrote:And if he says, "Nothing," boy did you waste YOUR question!

Frankly, that would be the best possible result!

It would mean that not only did I get one question answered, but I would be in possession of all the answers found within the suttas, Abhidhamma, commentaries etc. and would know that they were all absolutely rock solid 100% correct and the height of magnificence.

Metta,Retro.

If you have asked me of the origination of unease, then I shall explain it to you in accordance with my understanding: Whatever various forms of unease there are in the world, They originate founded in encumbering accumulation. (Pārāyanavagga)

Exalted in mind, just open and clearly aware, the recluse trained in the ways of the sages:One who is such, calmed and ever mindful, He has no sorrows! -- Udana IV, 7

After hearing what the Lord Buddha had to say to Retro, I would then ask: "What are the minor rules?"

Jack

"For a disciple who has conviction in the Teacher's message & lives to penetrate it, what accords with the Dhamma is this:'The Blessed One is the Teacher, I am a disciple. He is the one who knows, not I." - MN. 70 Kitagiri Sutta

Oh, gawd; what would you do if he said that the three life version was correct?

lol, then i would accept it

Somehow, I don't think you would.

“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.” - Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:in mountain clefts and chasms,loud gush the streamlets,but great rivers flow silently.- Sutta Nipata 3.725

Whilst I don't think it's necessarily anyone's place to speculate how others would react in such a situation, I believe clw_uk would listen to the Buddha and believe what was said.

We all have different approaches to trying to piece together for ourselves what the Buddha actually taught... I'm sure no two approaches are entirely the same. No matter how confident that we may be that we understand the Buddha's teachings, we should never be complacent and never think we have a monopoly on their interpretation.

Metta,Retro.

If you have asked me of the origination of unease, then I shall explain it to you in accordance with my understanding: Whatever various forms of unease there are in the world, They originate founded in encumbering accumulation. (Pārāyanavagga)

Exalted in mind, just open and clearly aware, the recluse trained in the ways of the sages:One who is such, calmed and ever mindful, He has no sorrows! -- Udana IV, 7